Brick by Brick LEGO Exhibition on Display at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry Register now and start to save and organize all of your favorite architecture photos as references for your next projects. I gave my son Gordon the LEGO Architecture Fallingwater set. Very nice set, but expensive (about $100). I asked him to create it in Minecraft. He did a very careful job. A typical 2×4 LEGO brick has dimensions with a ratio of 6 high, 20 wide, and 10 deep. So he used 1200 Minecraft bricks to make each LEGO brick. Those little flat plates with three studs that are in the front of the model above? They’re 2 Minecraft blocks tall, 15 wide, and 5 deep for a total of 150 Minecraft blocks each. Here’s what he created: Using a program called Mineways, we took the Minecraft model, converted it to an .stl file, uploaded it to Shapeways, and printed it out in full color Sandstone. The printer uses a gypsum dust and bonds it using colored crazy glue. Here’s a picture of the two models together:
I was able to download the .stl file from Shapeways, run it through a few free software programs, and produced a version from my Makerbot Replicator. It’s easy to see a future where you have a LEGO-like set of unlimited blocks in a 3D environment that you can build, tear down, change color, change shape – as much as you want. When you’re done, you can print out – in LEGO plastic – any version of your creation you want. LEGO should be worried. (Note: for the other half of the 3D revolution, see this post.)or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. David Robertson is a Professor of Practice at the Wharton School where he teaches Innovation and Product Development in Wharton’s undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs. From 2002 through 2010, Robertson was the LEGO Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Switzerland’s Institute for Management Development (IMD), which received the #1 worldwide ranking by the Financial Times for its executive education programs.
Robertson is the author of Brick by Brick: How LEGO Reinvented its Innovation System and Conquered the Toy Industry, and co-author of Enterprise Architecture as Strategy. In his latest quest to understand innovation, David is also host of Innovation Navigation, a Wharton Business School Business radio program offering live, unscripted access to world-renowned thought leaders, executives, and faculty. As a Professor of Practice at the Wharton School, Robertson brings brilliant minds worldwide to share their innovation knowledge and experience to the... read more "David’s keynote presentation at the PDMA AnnualGlobal Conference was truly a high point of the event.He literally woke everyone up to re-imagine how to apply the innovation dicta that we have heard before. Not only was his insight and content rich, he entertained the audience with one of the best-received presentations of the conference." — BRAD BARBERA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PDMA (The Product Development and Management Association)
Update – the Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Giveaway is now closed. The winners are TheCoolist readers Jim Schloemer and Ellen. Congrats to you both, and thanks to LEGO for joining us in this giveaway!Late last month, TheCoolist ran a feature on the Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Collection, a pair of LEGO sets that have been released as part of the new LEGO Architecture series. Later, we spoke to the people at LEGO about this collection, and were thrilled to learn they wanted to give away a few of these sets to TheCoolist readers. Were you as excited about LEGO Architecture as we were? You can imagine how pumped we were at the prospect of sharing Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Architecture with two of our very lucky readers… Want to try your luck? It’s quite simple, just three steps…Sign up for TheCoolist email newsletter (never spammy, only daily updates on TheCoolist stuff on the web!)Leave a comment on this post– tell us a story (choose a topic):What is your favorite Frank Lloyd Wright building that you have visited?
If you could visit any Frank Lloyd Wright structure, which would it be?How has LEGO played a part in your creative development, from either childhood or adulthood?Tell us which Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Architecture set you prefer most– the Guggenheim Museum or Falling WaterWe’ll then select two winners, at random, on Saturday, June 13th. The winners will be announced on this page that weekend and they will be contacted for fulfillment. All entrants must be 18 years of age or older and a U.S. resident. Good luck, TheCoolist readers– and thanks to LEGO for sharing this opportunity with TheCoolist community on the web! Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.
For the rest of the information regarding the house please visit Wikipedia. I've had thoughts about this project since I've built Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. I finally made up my mind in September 2009. when I began planning and working on some early designs. Scale of the building is minifig, or approximate 1:40. One of the issues was how to make the stone walls of the building. The result here is made out of 4 different shades of grey (old grey and bley). Other was the terrain and vegetation. In the end I decided to make it in winter atmosphere. Snow is something I always enjoy, and I was always more of a winter type of person, so here it is - my first snowy MOC. Building process spread over total of almost 7 months, and the structure is made out of more than 15000 bricks (just an approximate guess). It is placed on 6 48*48 baseplates, and measures 115 x 80 x 50 cm. It weights more than 20 kg. This MOC will be displayed in Technical Museum in Zagreb on "Kockice EXPO 2010", in May and June this year.
This is my second largest project so far. The largest is still Zagreb Art Pavillion. I would like to thank dear Klementina for her help and support during the rough times - multiple structure collapses. That guy you saw earlier Nathan The Wrench Dude Potu ,the half ToaHow about making a real waterfall? I have a pump prototype and i was looking a waterfall MOC, which could use it. Nick & Tyler L. Employee of the month (Hun-grr) yeah, that bob from the office bob, who lives in his moms house Matija Grguric Quoting Sebastian Manson Thanks for the great comment, 'cause I've never been there. No and no. I am sorry. This is my own creation. Thanks, but that's why I will never sort it out. HOW DID YOU MAKE SUCH AND UNBELIVABLE CREATION! WE LEARNED ABOUT THIS HOUSE IN SCHOOL AND THIS...MASTERPIECE LOOKS 10 TIMES BETTER THAN THE REAL ONE. CAN YOU ALSO CHECK OUT MY USS ENTERPRISE? Green helmet spanish AFOL Ben The Lego Builder